Customer Reviews

Carving Facial Expressions

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This is a good book for helping one carve facial expressions however it has a very limited number of examples and expressions to offer. The book is worth it for someone who is very much interested in carving, but for more information on facial expression try Artist's Complete Guide to Facial Expression.

I hope someday, I can carve wood like this guy!! He's amazing!! Clearly, the best book on learning facial expressions. A+++. Starting w/a diagram of the facial muscles, & how each one works, down to the different kinds of facial expressions doing all sorts of faces. This book is a MUST for any wood carvers, beginners or pros alike.

I found this book to be very disappointing. It was not helpful to me in trying to figure out how to ACHIEVE a particular expression with chisel cuts or other tool use. In addition, the facial expressions displayed in the illustrations are not, in my opinion, very representative of the emotion or image with which it is identified.

Since I bought the book on the internet, I did not have an opportunity to review its content. If I had flipped through the book before hand I would not have bought it. I enjoy wood carving, and I was looking for a book that would actually demonstrate how to carve facial feature. The book talks ABOUT facial features, not HOW to carve facial features. I don't know anymore about carving than I did before I read the book.